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Sustainability Club Pushes For “Free” Menstrual Products

Kaya Equevilley October 9, 2024

The Sustainability Club submitted a budget request that included money to provide free menstrual hygiene products on campus as well as condoms and pregnancy tests. They were told not to publicly distribute...

Breaking News Satire Column: Mass Protests on Prin Campus

Gideon Fugman November 16, 2024

In an extremely unexpected turn of events, there’s been some breaking news. This semester has been filled with protests and people coming together to fight for a cause. Even me, your local satire writer,...

Display of 2024-2026 Study Abroad Programs outside Principia’s Abroad Office.

Study Abroad Office Adapts to New Administration

Hannah Wymer October 9, 2024

The Study Abroad Office announced its upcoming abroad programs for the 2025-2026 school year at the end of last semester. However, when students came back to campus for the 2024 fall semester, some of...

Idea Lab in Marshall Brooks Library

Principia’s engineering program discontinuation sparks questions

Ruth Hummell, Staff Writer September 25, 2024

During the past year at Principia College, the academic administration has been working to implement a new curriculum. This "reimagination," as it's known, has reformed majors into five multidisciplinary...

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Medara Udoekong

2024-2025

Medara Udoekong is a junior double majoring in Sustainability and Global Studies with plans of minoring in Digital Media and Journalism. He is on the soccer and mediation teams, and leads the Principia FC and Sustainability Club. This is his first year on The Pilot and he also serves as the Sustainability...

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Tobin Blair

Tobin Blair

2024-2025

Tobin Blair (He/They) is a Senior majoring in History and Sustainability. Tobin is the current Editor-in-Chief of the Pilot after spending the last three years as a satire writer and occasional news writer, and the last two years as an editor.

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Principians ponder the future of Eliestoun

Principians ponder the future of Eliestoun

February 4, 2021

By Rachel McLeod-Warrick Renovations are needed to salvage the current state of Eliestoun House. With excitement growing about the proposed renovation of Eliestoun House, a variety of students,...

A hidden paradise, Principia's rooftop garden

A hidden paradise, Principia’s rooftop garden

December 5, 2019

By Valerie Perse Looking for a place to relax and use your green thumb? Principia’s rooftop garden is a hidden gem that not many students know of. Started by Principia alumnus Jeff Lewis, the green...

“The Foresight to Focus on the Present”

Karsten Olsen May 4, 2012

Sustainability is one of those buzz words that floats around in our minds these days. For some, it’s an ambiguous word with a somewhat elusive definition used to show how one cares about the global community....

A Community Approach to Cooking

Mallory Lee April 5, 2012

Over the past few years, movies such as Food, Inc. and gruesome articles about the inner-workings of the meat industry have been the catalyst for discussions about sustainability within food production....

Abroads: India, Nepal, Japan, Brazil and more!

February 5, 2010
Principia boasts an outstanding number of students who study abroad, and for those students, it's a life-changing experience. Every student has the opportunity to apply for a Principia Abroad Program, and faculty are always proposing new abroads.
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